Whenever a Working on Fire (WOF) Team is requested to do prescribed burns on a farm, is deployed to a wildfire somewhere in the mountains or needs to be transported to an event or training camp, or aircraft are deployed to a wildfire, Dispatch and Coordination is...

Just over 200 delegates attended the official opening of the Western Cape Wildfire Season at the Lourensford Wine Estate, Somerset West, on 28 November 2018, held under the auspices of the Western Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association (Representing all five Fire...

Annual Azishe Games The fifth annual national Azishe Games ended on Sunday, 18 November. This year’s games were hosted at Hekpoort in Gauteng and coincided with our 15-Year Celebrations. The Azishe Games is an opportunity for firefighters to compete against colleagues...

Annually, as the winter fire season draws to a close, Working on Fire gets ready for its famous Azishe Games. This highly anticipated inter-provincial, company sports event has become a highlight on the WOF calendar and many participants start preparing for the...

It was with great sadness that we learned of the loss of Nico Heyns, one of our most experienced firefighting pilots, during firefighting operations in the Southern Cape on 23 October 2018. We in Working on Fire and Kishugu joined Nico’s family, friends and colleagues...